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Barnsley have spent more seasons at the second level of English football than any other team and on 3 January became the first club to achieve 1, wins in the second level of English football with a 2—1 home victory over Coventry City.

Barnsley are also the first club to play 3, games in second-level league football W, D, L In its inaugural season of —05 , the Football League Championship announced a total attendance including postseason of 9.

Sunderland won the league in the first season since re-branding, with Wigan Athletic finishing second to win promotion to the top flight of English football for the first time in their history.

They had only been elected to the Football League twenty-seven years previously; playing in the fourth tier as recently as eleven years prior to their promotion.

In the —06 season , Reading broke the Football League points record for a season, finishing on points, exceeding the record set by Sunderland in Sunderland won their second Championship title in three seasons in the —07 season.

On 4 May , Leeds United became the first side since the re-branding of the division to enter administration; they were deducted ten points and were relegated as a result.

On 18 July , UK bookmaker Sky Bet announced that they signed a five-year agreement to sponsor the league. That season, Rotherham United recorded the lowest points total in Championship history - winning just 23 points from their 46 matches.

The league had an cumulative attendance of more than eleven million - excluding play-off matches - with more than two million watching Newcastle United and Aston Villa home fixtures alone; both of whom had been relegated from the Premier League in the previous season.

This was included in the highest crowds for the second to fourth tier in England since the —59 season. The league comprises 24 teams.

Three points are awarded for a win, one for a draw and zero for a loss. The teams are ranked in the league table by points gained, then goal difference, then goals scored and then their head-to-head record for that season.

In the event that two or more teams finish the season equal in all these respects, teams are separated by alphabetical order, unless a promotion, relegation or play-off place see below is at stake, when the teams are separated by a play-off game, though this improbable situation has never arisen in all the years the rule has existed.

At the end of the season, the top two teams and the winner of the Championship play-offs are promoted to the Premier League and the bottom three teams are relegated to Football League One.

The Football League Championship play-offs is a knock-out competition for the teams finishing the season in third to sixth place with the winner being promoted to the Premier League.

In the play-offs, the third-placed team plays against the sixth-placed team and the fourth-placed team plays against the fifth-placed team in two-legged semi-finals home and away.

The winners of each semi-final then compete in a single match at Wembley stadium with the prize being promotion to the Premier League and the Championship play-off trophy.

From to , Sky Sports had the rights to broadcast 65 live matches. Now, not all the games in the Championship are seen live on Sky Sports , but live coverage of both legs of both play-off semi finals and the play-off final are shown live.

Highlights are shown on Quest. The following 24 clubs are competing in the EFL Championship during the —19 season. For past winners at this level before , see List of winners of English Football League Championship and predecessors.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. List of winners of English Football League Championship and predecessors.

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